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Call for Papers: The Politics of Deindustrialization | Appel aux communications: La politique de la fermeture industrielle
Read the call for papers for our 2023 conference in Sydney, Nova Scotia. | Lisez l’appel à communications pour notre conférence de 2023 à Sydney, en Nouvelle-Écosse.
Slag Banks and Acts of Erasure
Clara Casian reflects on the traces left by the steel industry on Barrows Island’s landscape.
Call for Proposals – Towards the Global Study of Deindustrialization and Economic Restructuring: The Case of India
Prof. Steven High and Dr. Indranil Chakraborty are looking for submissions of proposals for contribution to their new project on deindustrialization in India. 350-word chapter proposals should be sent to steven.high@concordia.ca and indranil.chakraborty@concordia.ca by October 30, 2022.
Final Program for Transnationalizing Deindustrialization Studies Conference
The final program for the Transnationalizing Deindustrialization Studies conference this August 17-20 is now available! The program includes key information on our upcoming international conference, including schedules for public roundtables, regional industrial heritage tours, and a two-day academic conference.
Amélie Pelletier
Communications Officer
Conor Kilroy
Communications Coordinator
Preliminary Program & Registration for Transnationalizing Deindustrialization Studies Conference now available
The preliminary program for DePOT’s Transnationalizing Deindustrialization Studies conference is now available. The inter-disciplinary conference will be taking place in the Ruhr in Germany from August 18-20.
Funded PhD scholarship at Swansea University
The Department of History, Heritage and Classics at Swansea University has just announced a fully-funded 3-year PhD fellowship for an incoming UK-based student studying deindustrialization. Click through for more information.
COHDS Inventory Series: UK Oral History Archives
We’ve just finished laying out the first of our published research reports! This one is an inventory of oral history interview archives located in the UK, put together by student affiliate James Ferns.
DePOT Annual Report 2020-2021 now available
The first Annual Report for Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Times has just been published. Click through to read it.
The DePOT podcast is now live!
We’re very pleased to announce that the first episode in our Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time podcast series, an intro to DePOT with Principal Investigator Dr. Steven High, is now live and ready for listeners.
CHAIRE
Canada Research Chair in Urban Heritage
QUOTE
Queen’s University Oral History, Technology and Ethics
CREW
Connecting Research on Work and Employment
Preliminary Program for 2022 Ruhr DePOT Conference Unveiled
We’re thrilled to release the preliminary program for DePOT’s 2022 Ruhr conference, ‘Transnationalizing Deindustrialization Studies,’ taking place May 12-14, 2022 in Bochum, Germany.
Postdoctoral Fellowship at Ruhr-Universität Bochum’s Institute for Social Movements
We are pleased to announce that applications are now open for a 6-month Postdoctoral Fellowship at Ruhr-Universität Bochum’s Institute for Social Movements in partnership with DePOT. The position is open to recent PhD graduates specializing in deindustrialization and/or industrial heritage.
Honouring the Original Derry Girls: the Resurgence of the Commemoration and Celebration of Shirt Making in Derry, Northern Ireland
Naomi Petropoulos writes on the legacy of industrial shirt-making in Derry, Northern Ireland.
Funded M.A. fellowship opportunities at Concordia and Dalhousie/UCB
We’re excited to announce three funded fellowships for incoming M.A. students just made available at Concordia, Dalhousie/Cape Breton University.
Welcome to our new co-applicant and partner organization
DePOT is pleased to welcome another new co-applicant and partner organization to our team: Dr. Hilary Orange and the Centre for Heritage Research and Training (CHART) at Swansea University.
Graham Latham
Communications Coordinator
CHART
Centre for Heritage Research and Training, Swansea University
CIH
Calgary Institute for the Humanities
Temitope Moses Ojo
Research Assistant
Shelby McPhee
Research Assistant
Philip Rich
Research Assistant
Nicholas Fast
Research Assistant
PhD opportunity at Queen’s University Belfast on Gender and Deindustrialization
DePOT is thrilled to share a PhD opportunity working with Prof. Sean O’Connell based at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland.
RVR
Regionalverband Ruhr
FHI
Fritz-Hüser-Institut
Call for Papers – Transnationalizing Deindustrialization Studies and its Politics
This is the inaugural in-person conference of the “Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time (DePOT) partnership project, funded by Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. We invite you to submit a proposal for a session, paper, workshop, or research-creation outcome. Local or regional studies are welcome too as long as they engage with wider horizons/debates.
